mercredi 22 mars 2017

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed a new plan for NASA’s future into law: the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017. The law calls for a $19.5 billion annual budget for the agency – not a major change from the agency’s $19.3 billion budget in 2016 – but the document seems to leave out the agency’s earth science division entirely. Trump claims this is simply a way of reaffirming the agency’s “core mission” of human space exploration, space science, and technology,...